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Depicted. Lydgate.

A painting or depicting; a representation.

To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

de or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

n time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.] And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.

or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of…

r a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe. A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. Goldsmith. Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power Prior.…

One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.

e played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Goldsmith. A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose. See under F…

Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

n! Longfellow. Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted. Longfellow.

To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

ig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. Disloyal The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. Shak. If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Pope.

A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

presented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus.